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  Abide with Me: A Novel
  

  by Elizabeth Strout

  ISBN 1400062071 (1-4000-6207-1)
  Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

  
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  In her luminous and long-awaited new novel, bestselling author Elizabeth Strout welcomes readers back to the archetypal, lovely landscape of northern New England, where the events of her first novel, Amy and Isabelle, unfolded. In the late 1950s, in the small town of West Annett, Maine, a minister struggles to regain his calling, his family, and his happiness in the wake of profound loss. At the same time, the community he has served so charismatically must come to terms with its own strengths and failingsfaith and hypocrisy, loyalty and abandonmentwhen a dark secret is revealed.
  
  Tyler Caskey has come to love West Annett, just up the road from where he was born. The short, brilliant summers and the sharp, piercing winters fill him with aweas does his congregation, full of good people who seek his guidance and listen earnestly as he preaches. But after suffering a terrible loss, Tyler finds it hard to return to himself as he once was. He hasnt had The Feelingthat God is all around him, in the beauty of the worldfor quite some time. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the familys tragedy.
  
  A congregation that had once been patient and kind during Tylers grief now questions his leadership and propriety. In the kitchens, classrooms, offices, and stores of the village, anger and gossip have started to swirl. And in Tylers darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his congregations humanityand his own will to endure the kinds of trials that sooner or later test us all.
  
  In prose incandescent and artful, Elizabeth Strout draws readers into the details of ordinary life in a way that makes it extraordinary. All is consideredlife, love, God, and communitywithin these pages, and all is made new by this writers boundless compassion and graceful prose. [via]

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  All That Matters
  

  by Jan Goldstein

  ISBN 1401307523 (1-4013-0752-3)
  Softcover, Hyperion Books

  
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  What's the greatest gift that one person can give another?

  Jan Goldstein's stunning debut novel, All That Matters, is a deeply moving, endearing tale of a young woman who, with the help of her feisty grandmother, makes a journey from the very brink of death and despair into a full embrace of life.

  Jennifer Stempler has nothing left to lose: the love of her life dumped her, her mother died in a senseless car accident five years ago, and her famous Hollywood producer father started a brand-new family -- with no room in it for her. So, 23-year-old Jennifer decides to pursue peaceful (permanent) oblivion on the beach near her home in Venice, California, drifting on a lethal combination of Xanax and tequila. But she can't even get that right.

  Jennifer's depression is no match for her Nana's determination. Gabby Zuckerman refuses to let her granddaughter self-destruct. With promises made to Jennifer's father and doctors, Gabby whisks Jennifer back to her home in New York City, intending to prove to Jennifer that her life cannot possibly be over yet. In fact, it has just begun. Through jaunts in Central Park to road trips to Maine, Gabby teaches Jennifer how to trust and hope again. And by relating her own tragic and heroic experience during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Gabby bestows upon Jennifer an understanding of her own life's value. But when Gabby reveals a secret -- one that proves to be Jennifer's toughest challenge yet -- Jennifer struggles to find out whether the gift will sustain her.

  Combining the unabashedly heartwarming sentiment of Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County or Nicholas Sparks's Message in a Bottle with the irreverent humor of Jennifer Weiner's In Her Shoes, Goldstein's All That Matters is an inspirational first novel that leads readers to the core of what matters in life -- family, hope, and savoring each moment.

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  • All That Matters: ISBN 140130110X (1-4013-0110-X)
    Hardcover, Hyperion Books
  • All That Matters: ISBN 1401307523 (1-4013-0752-3)
    Softcover, Hyperion Books
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  Angels Crest
  

  by Leslie Schwartz

  ISBN 1400076455 (1-4000-7645-5)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Anne Of Green Gables
  

  by Kathleen Olmstead, Lucy Corvino

  ISBN 1402711301 (1-4027-1130-1)
  Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

  
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  Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.
  
  Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic tale, with its engaging heroine and evocative description of the Prince Edward Island landscape, never fails to delight youngsters. When Matthew Cuthbert goes to the train station to pick up the orphan he and his sister Marilla plan to adopt, he expects to meet a boy who can help on the family farm. Instead it's Anne--a talkative, dreamy, red-haired, freckle-faced 11-year-old little girl who transforms the Cuthberts' life forever and fills it with love and joy.
  

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  Anne of Green Gables
  

  by Scott McKowen

  ISBN 1402714513 (1-4027-1451-3)
  Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

  
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  The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.
  
  Scott created these drawings in scratchboard ­ an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.
  
  One things for certain, no house that Annes in will ever be dull. Thats what Marilla Cuthbert says about Anne, the lively red-headed orphan she and her brother Matthew adopt. For decades, girls have agreed, eagerly reading every book in Lucy Maud Montgomerys series that chronicles Annes coming of age.
  

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  At The Villa Of Reduced Circumstances
  

  by Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntosh

  ISBN 1400095093 (1-4000-9509-3)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  PORTUGUESE IRREGULAR VERBS - Book 3 The Portuguese Irregular Verbs series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany. Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due-a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Professor Dr. von Igelfeld gets caught up in a nasty case of academic intrigue while on sabbatical at Cambridge. When he returns to Regensburg he is confronted with the thrilling news that someone from a foreign embassy has actually checked his masterwork, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, out of the Institute's Library. As a result, he gets caught up in intrigue of a different sort on a visit to Bogota, Colombia. [via]

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  Babbitt
  

  by Sinclair Lewis

  ISBN 1406505544 (1-4065-0554-4)
  Softcover, Dodo Pr

  
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  A satire on American values, the main theme is the power of conformity and the vacuity of American life. By the American novelist and playwright who, in 1930, became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. [via]

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  Bergdorf Blondes
  

  by Plum Sykes

  ISBN 1401359604 (1-4013-5960-4)
  Softcover, Hyperion Books

  
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  Plum Sykes's beguiling debut welcomes readers to the glamorous world of Park Avenue Princesses, the girls who careen through Manhattan in search of the perfect Fake Bake (tan acquired from Portofino Tanning Salon), a ride on a PJ (private jet) with the ATM (rich boyfriend), and the ever-elusive fianc.

  With invitations to high-profile baby showers and benefits, more Marc Jacobs clothes than is decent, and a department store heiress for a best friend, our heroine known only as Moi is living at the peak of New York society. But what is Moi to do when her engagement falls apart? Can she ever find happiness in a city filled with the distractions of Front Row Girls, dermatologists, premieres, and eyebrow waxes? Is it possible to find love in a town where her friends think that the secret to happiness is getting invited to the Van Cleef and Arpels ber-private sample sale? And how is she going to deal with the endless phone calls from her mother in England demanding that she get married to the Earl next door?

  With enormous wit and an insider's eye, Sykes captures the nuances of the rich and spoiled in a heartwarming social satire, featuring a loveable "champagne bubble of a girl" who's just looking for love (and maybe the perfect pair of Chlo jeans).

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  • Bergdorf Blondes: ISBN 1401351964 (1-4013-5196-4)
    Hardcover, Miramax
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    Softcover, Hyperion Books
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  Blue Shoes And Happiness
  

  by Alexander McCall Smith

  ISBN 1400075718 (1-4000-7571-8)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 7
  
  Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswanas premier lady detective.  In this charming series, Mma  Ramotswe navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, and good humornot to mention help from her loyal assistant, Grace Makutsi, and the occasional cup of tea.
   
  

  Life is good for Mma Ramotswe as she sets out with her usual resolve to solve peoples problems, heal their misfortunes, and untangle the mysteries that make life interesting. And life is never dull on Tlokweng Road. A new and rather too brusque advice columnist is appearing in the local paper. Then, a cobra is found in the offices of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. Recently, the Mokolodi Game Preserve manager feels an infectious fear spreading among his workers, and a local doctor may be falsifying blood pressure readings. To further complicate matters, Grace Makutsi may have scared off her own fiancé. Mma Ramotswe, however, is always up to the challenge. And Blue Shoes and Happiness will not fail to entertain Alexander McCall Smiths oldest fans and newest converts with its great wit, charm, and great good will.

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  The Brambles
  

  by Eliza Minot

  ISBN 1400077524 (1-4000-7752-4)
  Softcover, Vintage Books

  
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  Briefing for a Descent into Hell
  

  by Doris Lessing

  ISBN 1400077265 (1-4000-7726-5)
  Softcover, Vintage Books

  
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  A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly mad. Professor Charles Watkins of Cambridge University is a patient at a mental hospital where the doctors try with increasing drugs to bring his mind under control. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous psychological adventure where, after spinning endlessly on a raft in the Atlantic, he lands on a tropical island inhabited by strange creatures with strange customs. Later, he is carried off on a cosmic journey into space& [via]

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  The Bright Forever
  

  by Lee Martin

  ISBN 1400097916 (1-4000-9791-6)
  Hardcover, Crown Pub

  
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  On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books.
  
  This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a suspenseful, deeply affecting novel about the choices people make that change their lives forever. Keeping fact, speculation, and contradiction playing off one another as the details unfold, author Lee Martin creates a fast-paced story that is as gripping as it is richly human. His beautiful, clear-eyed prose builds to an extremely nuanced portrayal of the complicated give and take among people struggling to maintain their humanity in the shadow of a loss.
  
  Reminiscent of books such as The Little Friend and The Lovely Bones, but most memorable for its own perceptions and power, The Bright Forever is a compelling and emotional tale about the human need to know even the hardest truth. [via]

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  Campo Santo
  

  by Anthea Bell, W. G. Sebald

  ISBN 1400062292 (1-4000-6229-2)
  Hardcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Caramba!
  

  by Nina Marie Martinez, Liliana Valenzuela

  ISBN 1400077389 (1-4000-7738-9)
  Softcover, Random House Espanol

  
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  Charmed Thirds
  

  by Megan McCafferty

  ISBN 1400080436 (1-4000-8043-6)
  Softcover, Crown Pub

  
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  Jessica Darlings in college!
  
  Things are looking up for Jessica Darling. She has finally left her New Jersey hometown/hellhole for Columbia University in New York City; shes more into her boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, than ever (so what if hes at a Buddhist college in California?); and shes making new friends who just might qualify as stand-ins for her beloved best friend, Hope.
  
  But Jessica soon realizes that her bliss might not last. She lands an internship at a snarky Brooklyn-based magazine, but will she fit in with the überhip staff (and will she even want to)? As she and Marcus hit the rocks, will she end up falling for her GOPunk, neoconservative RA . . . or the hot (and married!) Spanish grad student shes assisting on a summer project . . . or the oh-so-sensitive emo boy down the hall? Will she even make it through college now that her parents have cut her off financially? And what do the cryptic one-word postcards from Marcus really mean?
  
  With hilarious insight, the hyperobservant Jessica Darling struggles through her college yearsand the summers in betweenwhile maintaining her usual mix of wit, cynicism, and candor.
  
  
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  • Charmed Thirds: ISBN 1400080428 (1-4000-8042-8)
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  The Clerkenwell Tales
  

  by Peter Ackroyd

  ISBN 1400075955 (1-4000-7595-5)
  Softcover, Anchor Books

  
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  From the foremost contemporary chronicler of Londons history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucers The Canterbury Tales to recreate the citys 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of King Richard II and the demise of the Church. Her visions can be dismissed as madness, until she accurately foretells a series of terrorist explosions. What is the role of the apocalyptic Predestined Men? And the clandestine Dominus? And what powers, ultimately, will prevail?In Peter Ackroyds deft and suprising narrative, The Miller, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath and other characters from Canterbury Tales pursue these mysteries through a pungently vivid medieval London. [via]

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  The Conjurer's Bird
  

  by Martin Davies

  ISBN 1400097347 (1-4000-9734-7)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  • The Conjurer's Bird: ISBN 1400097339 (1-4000-9733-9)
    Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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  Deadwood
  

  by Pete Dexter

  ISBN 1400079713 (1-4000-7971-3)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Dearly Devoted Dexter
  

  by Jeff Lindsay

  ISBN 1400095921 (1-4000-9592-1)
  Softcover, Vintage Books

  
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  Lifes tough for Dexter Morgan. Its not easy being the worlds only serial killer with a conscience, especially when you work for the Miami police. To avoid suspicion, Dexters had to slip deep into his disguise: spending time with his girlfriend and her kids, slowly becoming the worlds first serial killing couch potato. Then a particularly nasty psychopath starts cutting a trail through Miami  a killer whose twisted techniques leave even Dexter speechless. When his sister Deborah, a tough-as-nails cop, is drawn into the case, it becomes clear that Dexter will have to do come out of hiding and hunt the monster down. Unless, of course, the killer finds him first. . . [via]

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  Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
  

  by Anne Carson

  ISBN 1400078903 (1-4000-7890-3)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Simone Weil described decreation as undoing the creature in usan undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these forms she slowly dismantles them, and in doing so seeks to move through the self, to its undoing. [via]

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  Devices & Desires
  

  by P. D. James

  ISBN 1400076242 (1-4000-7624-2)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  National Bestseller 
  
  Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline.
  
  Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career. [via]

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  Dive from Clausen's Pier
  

  by Ann Packer

  ISBN 141040093X (1-4104-0093-X)
  Softcover, Walker Large Print

  
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  Carrie Bell is the worst person in the world. Or so she would have you think. In the gripping, carefully paced debut novel of personal epiphany, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, by O. Henry Award winner Ann Packer, Carrie's very survival is dependent upon her leaving her fiancé, even after he dives into shallow water at a Memorial Day picnic and becomes paralyzed. Things hadn't been going so well for the Madison, Wisconsin, high school and college sweethearts. Carrie knew, deep down, that she wasn't going to become Mrs. Michael Mayer. But expectations and pressure from all sides--his family, her mother, her best friend Jamie, Mike's best friend Rooster--force Carrie to shut herself up in her room and sew outfits of her own design as if in a trance. Then one night she slips out of the only universe she's ever known. Many hours later she finds herself on the doorstep of a high school classmate living in Manhattan. Carrie's adventures in the city--quirky roommates and a new romance with an older, emotionally impenetrable man--confuse her in her quest both to forgive herself and to embark on a career in fashion design. Packer writes in a convincing voice and packs a lot into this novel; she infuses Carrie with enough humanity and smarts to choose her own version of "happily ever after." --Emily Russin [via]

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  Divided Kingdom
  

  by Rupert Thomson

  ISBN 1400076595 (1-4000-7659-5)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. Reacting to their countrys inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violence, the powers that be establish four independent republics based on the perceived nature of the citizens assigned to each. These new partitions are reinforced with concrete barricades and razor wire.
  
  Renamed, relocated, and granted favored status, Thomas enjoys one success after another until, working as a devoted civil servant, he suddenly falls out of the system entirely. [via]

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  Donorboy
  

  by Brendan Halpin

  ISBN 1400062772 (1-4000-6277-2)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  The Eagle's Throne
  

  by Carlos Fuentes, Kristina Cordero

  ISBN 1400062470 (1-4000-6247-0)
  Hardcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Elements of Style
  

  by Wendy Wasserstein

  ISBN 1400076870 (1-4000-7687-0)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Ex Machina 1: The First Hundred Days
  

  by Tony Harris, Brian K. Vaughn

  ISBN 1401206123 (1-4012-0612-3)
  Softcover, Dc Comics

  
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  Ex Machina 3: Fact V. Fiction
  

  by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris, Tom Feister

  ISBN 1401209882 (1-4012-0988-2)
  Softcover, Dc Comics

  
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  Ex Machina 4: March to War
  

  by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris, Chris Sprouse

  ISBN 1401209971 (1-4012-0997-1)
  Softcover, Wildstorm

  
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  Ex Machina,Tag book 2: Tag
  

  by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris

  ISBN 1401206263 (1-4012-0626-3)
  Softcover, Wildstorm

  
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  The Finer Points Of Sausage Dogs
  

  by Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntosh

  ISBN 1400095085 (1-4000-9508-5)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due-a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray. In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, Professor Dr. Von Igelfeld is mistaken for a veterinarian and not wanting to call attention to the faux pas, begins practicing veterinary medicine without a license. He ends up operating on a friend's dachshund to dramatic and unfortunate effect. He also transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate, and is pursued by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship. [via]

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  For One More Day
  

  by Mitch Albom

  ISBN 1401303277 (1-4013-0327-7)
  Hardcover, Hyperion Books

  
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  This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his fatherand she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he decides to take his life. But somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with herthe day he missed and always wished hed had. He asks the questions many of us yearn to ask, the questions we never ask while our parents are alive. By the end of this magical day, Charley discovers how little he really knew about his mother, the secret of how her love saved their family, and how deeply he wants the second chance to save his own. [via]

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  The Franklin Affair: A Novel
  

  by Jim Lehrer

  ISBN 1400061989 (1-4000-6198-9)
  Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

  
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  A Friend From England
  

  by Anita Brookner

  ISBN 1400095212 (1-4000-9521-2)
  Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc

  
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  The Getting of Wisdom
  

  by Henry Handel Richardson

  ISBN 1404305610 (1-4043-0561-0)
  Softcover, Indypublish.Com

  
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  God Lives in St. Petersburg: and Other Stories
  

  by Tom Bissell

  ISBN 1400075424 (1-4000-7542-4)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Going Out
  

  by Scarlett Thomas

  ISBN 1400075319 (1-4000-7531-9)
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  The Good Soldier
  

  by Ford Madox Ford

  ISBN 1406502081 (1-4065-0208-1)
  Softcover, Dodo Pr

  
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  Large format for easy reading. Set just before World War I, this classic novel chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two supposedly "perfect couples" using intricate flashbacks (a literary technique pioneered by Ford). [via]

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  The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
  

  by Ford Madox Ford

  ISBN 1404305890 (1-4043-0589-0)
  Softcover, IndyPublish.com

  
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  The Greenlanders
  

  by Jane Smiley

  ISBN 1400095468 (1-4000-9546-8)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Guilt Trip
  

  by Patricia Harper

  ISBN 141166213X (1-4116-6213-X)
  Softcover, Lulu.Com

  
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  The Handmaid and the Carpenter: A Novel
  

  by Elizabeth Berg

  ISBN 1400065380 (1-4000-6538-0)
  Hardcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Harbor
  

  by Lorraine Adams

  ISBN 1400076889 (1-4000-7688-9)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  The High-impact Infidelity Diet: A Novel
  

  by Lou Harry, Eric Pfeffinger

  ISBN 1400098459 (1-4000-9845-9)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  In Lucia's Eyes
  

  by Arthur Japin, David Colmer

  ISBN 140009612X (1-4000-9612-X)
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  Incendiary
  

  by CHRIS CLEAVE

  ISBN 1400096685 (1-4000-9668-5)
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  Kaddish for an Unborn Child
  

  by Imre Kertesz, Tim Wilkinson

  ISBN 1400078628 (1-4000-7862-8)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
  

  by Terry Jones

  ISBN 1402720335 (1-4027-2033-5)
  Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

  
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  This perennial bestseller never loses its charm. It really happened-a hoax perpetrated by two girls who claimed to have photographed actual "fairies"; among the people caught up in the popular hysteria were Arthur Conan Doyle (who fell for it) and Harry Houdini (who did not). This remarkable parody, written by a former member of the Monty Python troupe, takes a riotously witty, visually extraordinary, and wildly original look at what went on. In every respect, this "handwritten diary" captures the look of the age-though the fairies, it is true, do sometimes have a more malevolent aspect than one might expect...
  A fresh-and funny-take on the true story that inspired two movies.
  

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  The Lake, the River & the Other Lake
  

  by Steve Amick

  ISBN 1400079942 (1-4000-7994-2)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  The resort town of Weneshkeen, nestled along Michigans Gold Coast, has become a complex melting pot: townies and old timers mix with ritzy summer folk, migrant cherry pickers, wily river guides, and a few Ojibwe Indians. As the summer blooms, these lives mingle in surprising waysa lifelong resident and Vietnam Vet pursues the take-no-guff deputy sheriff, while plotting revenge against the jet-skiers polluting his beloved lake; a summer kid from downstate stumbles into a romance with the sexiest rich girl in town; the towns retired reverend discovers the Internet and a new friend in his computer tutor. A resonant social comedy with richly-drawn characters and quirky charm, The Lake, the River & the Other Lake welcomes you into a world that you may never want to leave. [via]

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  Last Night
  

  by James Salter

  ISBN 1400078415 (1-4000-7841-5)
  Softcover, Vintage Books

  
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  Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passionby turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. These ten powerful stories portray men and women in their most intimate moments. A lover of poetry is asked by his wife to give up what may be his most treasured relationship. A book dealer is forced to face the truth about his life. And in the title story, a translator assists his wifes suicide, even as he performs a last act of betrayal. James Salters assured style and emotional insight make him one of our most essential writers [via]

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  Leaving Home
  

  by Anita Brookner

  ISBN 1400095654 (1-4000-9565-4)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  The Little Black Book Of Stories
  

  by A. S. Byatt

  ISBN 1400075602 (1-4000-7560-2)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Love
  

  by Toni Morrison

  ISBN 1400078474 (1-4000-7847-4)
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  Love And Other Impossible Pursuits
  

  by Ayelet Waldman

  ISBN 1400095131 (1-4000-9513-1)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, And What I Listened to
  

  by Rob Sheffield

  ISBN 1400083028 (1-4000-8302-8)
  Hardcover, Random House Inc

  
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  The Main
  

  by Trevanian

  ISBN 1400098238 (1-4000-9823-8)
  Softcover, Three Rivers Pr

  
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  Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whores
  

  by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  ISBN 1400095808 (1-4000-9580-8)
  Softcover, Random House Espanol

  
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  Memories Of My Melancholy Whores
  

  by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman

  ISBN 1400095948 (1-4000-9594-8)
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  Men And Cartoons
  

  by Jonathan Lethem

  ISBN 1400076803 (1-4000-7680-3)
  Softcover, Vintage Books

  
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  Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues
  

  by Linda Berdoll

  ISBN 1402202733 (1-4022-0273-3)
  Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc Landmark

  
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  The Murder Room
  

  by P. D. James

  ISBN 1400076099 (1-4000-7609-9)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  National Bestseller 
  
  Murders present meet murders past in P.D. Jamess latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller.
  
  Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of the fellow trustees and the Dupayne's devoted staff.  Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime.  When it becomes clear that the murderer has been inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room--and is preparing to kill again--Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer. [via]

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  Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust
  

  by Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess

  ISBN 1401211909 (1-4012-1190-9)
  Hardcover, Vertigo

  
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  De Féerie, le pays magique, les habitants du petit village de Wall savent peu de choses. Il faut dire qu'un grand mur les en séparent. Un mur dans lequel est ouvert une brèche, une brèche bien gardée, par laquelle ils n'ont droit de passer qu'une fois l'an, le jour de la grande foire de Wall. C'est ce jour-là, justement, que le jeune Tristram Thorn, décidé à conquérir le cSur de sa belle, part pour le pays de fée afin de lui ramener une étoile filante. Mais dans un pays magique, rien n'est comme ailleurs. Les distances sont immenses, on y croise nains et licornes, des chasseurs d'éclairs naviguent sur des bateaux volants et l'on est jamais à l'abri d'un mauvais sort qui pourra vous transformer en arbre, en chèvre ou en rat. Un monde plein de dangers et de merveilles que Tristram est loin d'imaginer, comme il est loin d'imaginer que son étoile filante est une belle et pure jeune fille, dont la présence ici-bas va éveiller la concupiscence des sept seigneurs de Sromhold comme de quelques vilaines sorcières...

  Neil Gaiman est aussi à l'aise dans la BD (Sandman), que dans le roman (Neverwhere). Un talent inépuisable qu'il confirme une fois de plus ici en revisitant avec bonheur l'univers des contes de fées. À la fois drôle, merveilleux et volontairement naïf, Stardust est une réussite. --Georges Louhans [via]

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  Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel
  

  by Alice Walker

  ISBN 1400061733 (1-4000-6173-3)
  Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

  
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  The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple , Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey. In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart , Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her ?nest achievements: the story of a woman's spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self, and a collision with love. Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married many times, she has lived a life rich with explorations of the natural world and the human soul. Now, at fifty-seven, she leaves her lover, Yolo, to embark on a new excursion, one that begins on the Colorado River, proceeds through the past, and flows, inexorably, into the future. As Yolo begins his own parallel voyage, Kate encounters celibates and lovers, shamans and snakes, memories of family disaster and marital discord, and emerges at a place where nothing remains but love. Told with the accessible style and deep feeling that are its author's hallmarks, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart is Alice Walker's most surprising achievement. [via]

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  The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005
  

  by Laura Furman

  ISBN 1400076544 (1-4000-7654-4)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  The Olive Readers
  

  by Christine Aziz

  ISBN 140508829X (1-4050-8829-X)
  Softcover, Macmillan

  
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  Portuguese Irregular Verbs
  

  by Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntosh

  ISBN 1400077087 (1-4000-7708-7)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment- Book 1
  
  The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany.
   
  Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is duea quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray.
  
  In Portuguese Irregular Verbs, Professor Dr von Igelfeld learns to play tennis, and forces a college chum to enter into a duel that results in a nipped nose. He also takes a field trip to Ireland where he becomes acquainted with the rich world of archaic Irishisms, and he develops an aching infatuation with a Dentist fatale. Along the way, he takes two ill-fated Italian sojourns, the first merely uncomfortable, the second definitely dangerous. [via]

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  Pretty Birds: A Novel
  

  by Scott Simon

  ISBN 1400063108 (1-4000-6310-8)
  Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

  
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  The Promise
  

  by Chaim Potok

  ISBN 1400095417 (1-4000-9541-7)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, hes in love, and hes studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die.
  
  One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching. Reuven also introduces him to an old friend, Danny Saundersnow a psychologist with a growing reputation. Reconnected by their shared concern for Michael, Reuven and Danny each learns what it is to take on lifewhether sacred truths or a troubled childaccording to his own lights, not just established authority.
  
  In a passionate, energetic narrative, The Promise brilliantly dramatizes what it is to master and use knowledge to make ones own way in the world [via]

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  Ps, I Love You
  

  by Cecelia Ahern

  ISBN 140130916X (1-4013-0916-X)
  Softcover, Hyperion Books

  
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  Cecelia Ahern's debut novel, PS, I Love You, follows the engaging, witty, and occasionally sappy reawakening of Holly, a young Irish widow who must put her life back together after she loses her husband Gerry to a brain tumor. Ahern, the twentysomething daughter of Ireland's prime minister, has discovered a clever and original twist to the Moving On After Death concept made famous by novelists and screenwriters alike--Gerry has left Holly a series of letters designed to help her face the year ahead and carry on with her life. As the novel takes readers through the seasons (and through Gerry's monthly directives), we watch as Holly finds a new job, takes a holiday to Spain with her girlfriends, and sorts through her beloved husband's belongings. Accompanying Holly throughout the healing process is a cast of friends and family members who add as much to the novel's success as Holly's own tale of survival. In fact, it is these supporting character's mini-dramas that make PS, I Love You more than just another superficial tearjerker with the obligatory episode at a karaoke bar. Ahern shows real talent for capturing the essence of an interaction between friends and foes alike; even if Holly's circle of friends does resemble the gang from Bridget Jones a bit too neatly to ignore (her best friend is even called Sharon).

  While her style can be at times repetitive and her delivery is occasionally amateurish, Ahern deserves credit for a spirited first effort. If PS, I Love You is any indication of this author's talent, readers have much to look forward to as Ahern matures as a novelist and a storyteller. --Gisele Toueg [via]

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  Red Azalea
  

  by Anchee Min

  ISBN 1400096987 (1-4000-9698-7)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  A Redbird Christmas
  

  by Fannie Flagg

  ISBN 1400065054 (1-4000-6505-4)
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  With the same incomparable style and warm, inviting voice that have made her beloved by millions of readers far and wide, New York Times bestselling author Fannie Flagg has written an enchanting Christmas story of faith and hope for all ages that is sure to become a classic.
  Deep in the southernmost part of Alabama, along the banks of a lazy winding river, lies the sleepy little community known as Lost River, a place that time itself seems to have forgotten. After a startling diagnosis from his doctor, Oswald T. Campbell leaves behind the cold and damp of the oncoming Chicago winter to spend what he believes will be his last Christmas in the warm and welcoming town of Lost River. There he meets the postman who delivers mail by boat, the store owner who nurses a broken heart, the ladies of the Mystic Order of the Royal Polka Dots Secret Society, who do clandestine good works. And he meets a little redbird named Jack, who is at the center of this tale of a magical Christmas when something so amazing happened that those who witnessed it have never forgotten it. Once you experience the wonder, you too will never forget A Redbird Christmas. [via]

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  Rosie Dunne
  

  by Cecelia Ahern

  ISBN 140130091X (1-4013-0091-X)
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  Cecelia Ahearn's Rosie Dunne is the amusing story of Alex and Rosie, best friends who grow up together in Ireland and stay close throughout cross-continental moves, marriages, parenthood, family dramas. and professional triumphs. Friends for close to 50 years, the potential for romance between the pair is always under the surface, yet never seems to find the right time or place to become a reality.

  Twenty-three year old Ahern, whose debut novel, PS, I Love You, was a modest hit with critics and readers alike, does not deviate much from the witty yet sentimental style she seems to naturally posses. Rosie Dunne is written through a series of notes, letters, IMs, e-mails, and text messages between the two protagonists and their various friends and family members. While this style is engaging at first, readers may eventually long for more substantial dialogue and fewer choppy exchanges. In fact, about halfway into the story, some may even feel the urge to skip ahead to what is almost an inevitable conclusion. However, the addition of entertaining secondary characters (such as Rosie's best friend Ruby and her overweight, yet oddly talented, salsa-dancing son) help keep the momentum going through one-to-many near misses between Rosie and Alex.

  Overall, Rosie Dunne is a touching look at what happens when "the one" always seems to be just a tad bit out of reach. Still, one can't help wondering if this novel may have been better suited to a short but sweet episode of a half-hour sitcom. --Gisele Toueg [via]

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  Runaway: Stories
  

  by Alice Munro

  ISBN 1400077915 (1-4000-7791-5)
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  Siddhartha
  

  by Hermann Hesse

  ISBN 1404331972 (1-4043-3197-2)
  Softcover, IndyPublish.com

  
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  Stop That Girl: A Novel in Stories
  

  by Elizabeth McKenzie

  ISBN 1400062241 (1-4000-6224-1)
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  The Stranger
  

  by Albert Camus

  ISBN 1406711284 (1-4067-1128-4)
  Softcover, Hesperides Pr

  
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  The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. Alienation, the fear of anonymity, spiritual doubt--all could have been given a purely modern inflection in the hands of a lesser talent than Camus, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was noted for his existentialist aesthetic. The remarkable trick of The Stranger, however, is that it's not mired in period philosophy.

  The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial's proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother's death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.

  Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story's end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't." There's a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It's undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it. --Ben Guterson [via]

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  Suite Francaise
  

  by Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra Smith

  ISBN 1400096278 (1-4000-9627-8)
  Softcover, Vintage Books

  
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  Summer Crossing
  

  by Truman Capote

  ISBN 1400065224 (1-4000-6522-4)
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  Sweet Land Stories
  

  by E. L. Doctorow

  ISBN 1400062047 (1-4000-6204-7)
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  Tales of Mystery and Imagination
  

  by Edgar Allen Poe

  ISBN 1406793019 (1-4067-9301-9)
  Softcover, Hesperides Pr

  
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  Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]

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  The Third Translation
  

  by Matt Bondurant

  ISBN 1401308414 (1-4013-0841-4)
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  Thirteen Moons: A Novel
  

  by Charles Frazier

  ISBN 1400066395 (1-4000-6639-5)
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  Hardcover Limited Edition: Autographed by author; numbered and slipcased
  
  This magnificent novel by one of Americas finest writers is the epic of one mans remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life.
  
  At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins  for a brief moment  a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Wills destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians  including a Cherokee Chief named Bear  he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokees homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that only desire trumps time.
  
  Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a mans passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a mans destiny over the many moons of a life.
  
  
  Fascinating&Reading Thirteen Moons is an intoxicating experience&This is 21st-century literary fiction at its very best.
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  Thirteen Moons is rare in many ways and occupies a literary plane of such height that reviewing it is not really salient&.Thirteen Moons has the power to inspire great performances from succeeding generations of writers&.For those who simply value the literary experience, Thirteen Moons will provide the immense satisfaction of taking a literary journey of magnitude. Whether on a plane, in an office or curled in a window seat, readers who absorb Will's story will find their own lives enriched&.Thirteen Moons belongs to the ages.
  Los Angeles Times
  
  Once again, we are in the hands of an assured writer who knows how to bring history to life&Gorgeous.
  New Orleans Times Picayune
  
  Magical&the history lesson in Thirteen Moons is fascinating and moving&You will find much to admire and savor in Thirteen Moons.
  USA Today
  
  Incredibly powerful.
  Melissa Block on NPR All Things Considered
  
  Verdict: A powerhouse second act&.a brilliant success&Frazier's second act should convince everyone that he's here to stay. It is a powerful, dramatic, often surprising and memorable novel.
  Atlanta Journal Constitution
  
  Thirteen Moons is a boisterous, confident novel that draws from the epic tradition... Frazier is a natural storyteller, and throughout his picaresque tale are grand themes and eulogies
  Boston Globe
  
  Warm hearted&Frazier is a remarkably meticulous and tasteful writer& Thirteen Moons is a worthy successor to the first novel
  and a highly readable book.
  Seattle Times
  
  Fiction of the highest order&Another indelible character. Charles Frazier has a knack for them.
  Charlotte Observer
  
  Splendidly written.
  New York Daily News
  
  What a story!... Frazier's creation, Will Cooper, is utterly charismatic&.Frazier's genius lies in his ability to convey emotions that feel pure and genuine&It was worth the wait.
  Dayton Daily News
  
  To Charles Frazier, words are playthings. Like very few other contemporary American novelists, he puts them together in such a way that they can transform an otherwise mundane moment, scene or conversation into one that is transcendent&.No sophomore jinx here. Reading a Frazier novel is like listening to a fine symphony. He's a maestro whose pen is his baton, beckoning the best that each sentence has to offer. And just as you wouldn't rush a conductor, you should take the time to savor Fraziers work, to take in each thought, to relish the turn of phrase or the imagery of a craftsman.
  Denver Post
  
  Two for two&Here is a book brimming with vivid, adventurous incident&Charles Frazier set himself a daunting challenge with this book. He set out to write a historical novel that was retrospective and meditative, yet still vibrant and immediate with life. Thirteen Moons succeeds in classy fashion.
  Raleigh News & Observer
  
  If current fiction is anything to go by, its hard for a novelist to make Santayana's puzzle pieces - lyricism, comedy, tragedy - fit together, as they do in real life and real history. Frazier has done it&Thirteen Moons makes you feel that change that happened so long before our own time, and makes you mourn it.
  Newsday
  
  [Thirteen Moons] is superbly entertaining, and it packs enough emotional heft to measure up to most readers high expectations.
  Richmond Times-Dispatch
  
  Thirteen Moons is a fitting successor to Cold Mountain&fans of Frazier's debut will be cheered to discover that the new book is another compulsively readable work of historical fiction.
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  
  If there is any doubt that Frazier is an incredibly gifted storyteller - and not just a lucky name or a one-hit wonder - it will be put to rest with the publication of Thirteen Moons. Within 10 pages, this long-awaited new novel bears the reader swiftly out of the waking world into its own imagined universe like nothing else published this year.
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  
  Achingly beautiful descriptions of nature&Its rich, its beautiful.
  Columbia State
  
  Forget the sophomore jinx. Frazier demonstrates that Cold Mountain was no one-hit wonder with this fully realized historical novel again set in the South&.Again, Frazier shows himself a master of landscape and language, both often fresh and surprising in his telling.
  Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  Thirteen Moons contains achingly beautiful passages of snowfalls, fog-wrapped rivers and moonlit forests. There are ribald and hilarious events, too, including a description of the Cherokee Booger Dance that is a masterpiece of satire. The love affair between Cooper and Claire threads its way through this pseudo-historic epic like a brilliant, scarlet ribbon. There is also a melancholy refrain that celebrates a wondrous time and place that is gone and will never return.
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  Thunderstruck
  

  by Erik Larson

  ISBN 1400080665 (1-4000-8066-5)
  Hardcover, Crown Pub

  
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  A true story of love, murder, and the end of the worlds great hush
  
  In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two menHawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communicationwhose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.
  
  Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners, scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed, and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth. Against this background, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, the kindest of men, nearly commits the perfect crime.
  
  With his superb narrative skills, Erik Larson guides these parallel narratives toward a relentlessly suspenseful meeting on the waters of the North Atlantic. Along the way, he tells of a sad and tragic love affair that was described on the front pages of newspapers around the world, a chief inspector who found himself strangely sympathetic to the killer and his lover, and a driven and compelling inventor who transformed the way we communicate. Thunderstruck presents a vibrant portrait of an era of séances, science, and fog, inhabited by inventors, magicians, and Scotland Yard detectives, all presided over by the amiable and fun-loving Edward VII as the world slid inevitably toward the first great war of the twentieth century. Gripping from the first page, and rich with fascinating detail about the time, the people, and the new inventions that connect and divide us, Thunderstruck is splendid narrative history from a master of the form. [via]

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  The Time in Between
  

  by David Bergen

  ISBN 1400062403 (1-4000-6240-3)
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  To the Lighthouse
  

  by Virginia Woolf

  ISBN 140679239X (1-4067-9239-X)
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  Mrs Woolf first became known to the wider reading public with the publication of A Room of One's Own in 1929. But the year before that, her novel To the Lighthouse had been awarded the Northcliffe and Femina Vie Heureuse prizes. It has since been translated into many languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Virginia Woolf's technique was all her own. In the words of Naomi Royde-Smith: 'Mrs Woolf is illuminated, analytic, and radiant with a personal quality that increases with every book she writes, and has in To the Lighthouse reached a pitch unsounded by any English writer of her school.' [via]

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  We Are All Welcome Here
  

  by Elizabeth Berg

  ISBN 140006161X (1-4000-6161-X)
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  White Oleander
  

  by Janet Fitch

  ISBN 1410400816 (1-4104-0081-6)
  Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning

  
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  Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1999: Astrid Magnussen, the teenage narrator of Janet Fitch's engrossing first novel, White Oleander, has a mother who is as sharp as a new knife. An uncompromising poet, Ingrid despises weakness and self-pity, telling her daughter that they are descendants of Vikings, savages who fought fiercely to survive. And when one of Ingrid's boyfriends abandons her, she illustrates her point, killing the man with the poison of oleander flowers. This leads to a life sentence in prison, leaving Astrid to teach herself the art of survival in a string of Los Angeles foster homes.

  As Astrid bumps from trailer park to tract house to Hollywood bungalow, White Oleander uncoils her existential anxieties. "Who was I, really?" she asks. "I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces." Fitch adroitly leads Astrid down a path of sorting out her past and identity. In the process, this girl develops a wire-tight inner strength, gains her mother's white-blonde beauty, and achieves some measure of control over their relationship. Even from prison, Ingrid tries to mold her daughter. Foiling her, Astrid learns about tenderness from one foster mother and how to stand up for herself from another. Like the weather in Los Angeles--the winds of the Santa Anas, the scorching heat--Astrid's teenage life is intense. Fitch's novel deftly displays that, and also makes Astrid's life meaningful. --Katherine Anderson [via]

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  Who Moved My Blackberry?
  

  by Lucy Kellaway

  ISBN 1401308910 (1-4013-0891-0)
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  Wise Children
  

  by Angela Carter

  ISBN 140583563X (1-4058-3563-X)
  Softcover, Prentice Hall

  
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  Do you want a better understanding of the text? Do you want to know what the critics say? Do you want to know how to improve your grade? Whatever you want, York Notes can help. York Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Key Features: *Summaries with detailed commentaries *Extended commentaries on key passages *Discussion of themes and literary techniques *Author biography *Historical and literary background *Check the net/film/book features *Glossary of literary terms *Self-test questions [via]

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